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did you manage to install LibreOffice on your Ubports phone?
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Do you use LibreOffice on your Ubports phone?
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If so, which components of LibreOffice do you use?
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Can you report bugs when using LibreOffice with your Ubports phone?
Peter Gamma
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LibreOffice on Ubports phone (survey)
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RE: Recommendation for SD card encryption software on Ubuntu touch?
@josele13 Thanks for your detailed answer. Your profound advices are very helpful. I have to study this in detail.
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RE: Xiaomi Redmi Note 7 Pro (violet)
I don t have this device either, and I am not a porter as well, but I appreciate your work very much. Every contribution to the Ubuntu Touch community is helpful.
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RE: Best recent phone hardware for install ?
For me personally, the winner is the port of Ubuntu Touch from Joel for the Xiaomi Poco F1 :
https://forums.ubports.com/topic/4611/xiaomi-poco-f1-beryllium
Joel, a passionate inter-disciplinary programmer who loves to code all night:
https://github.com/joelselvaraj
thanks, Joel, for your great work.
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RE: Dual boot with lineage os
@c0n57an71n I admit, this is an advantage of the PinePhone. I also miss a dual boot option for Ubuntu Touch. Some apps only work on newer Android releases. I currently carry around three different Samsung Galaxy S5 devices with different Android versions. Each for it's on purpose. One for ANT+, one for writing capability to the SD card, and one for phone calls the latest Android apps. With Ubuntu Touch, there will be one device more. Multi boot could solve the problem.
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RE: Request list for other devices in the device subfolders
@flohack I don't agree with flohack. Even when developers are not present in the forum, every knowledge about devices is precious. For instance, there is a problem with the different types of Xiaomi devices, which their exact model naming. A subfolder for each Xiaomi device which is ported, or generally for each device which is ported would be helpful. Every port is precous work and deserves a subfolder, a subfolder for each device someone requests. Even if there is no further developement for a device, it is good to know the different devices, their naming, and what is working, and what is not working. This can help which device to choose. Else this information is scattered everywhere.
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RE: Xiaomi Redmi 7 review and beginner questions?
@tchan the developement of the Xiaomi Redmi 7 seems to make progress. Could you inform us, when the Ubports installer for the Redmi 7 is there?
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RE: Share Ubports Folder On Local Network?
Thank you both for your answers:
@arubislander: I I suppose Syncthing will solve my problem the easiest way. I use my phone since many years man.y for writing. There are thousands of files on my SD card which I don t want to loose. My main motivation to choose a Linux phone was that I expected an improve in file access possibilies. This is there, but mainly for progammers. Syncthing is also available for Android, and there are apps available to control mouse and keyboard in Android. Therefore I don t see a reason why to use a Ubports phone instead of an Android phone. Softmaker office on Android is as the desktop app.
The PinePhone has at least the option to write to the external SD card, and internal and external SD card can be acessed over Jumpdrive. This seems to me another easy solution.
@ pctrl : Thanks four your detailed instruction. Happy that this option works for your you. I saw some videos about SSH. It seems a bit too big for my application. It also seems that not many use their phone in that way, else it would be better implemented.
I also thought about a Rasperri Pi with Ubuntu desktop to get all the options, but it is not so handy. But I eventually will carry around such a device with an image of home assistant for sensor data acquistion, which is only available for Rasperri PI.
Thank you for your support .
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Deloper wanted for server app developement
TechHut demonstrated, that it is possible to run Nextcloud, Jellyfin Media Server, and Minecraft Server on a PinePhone:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSKHbYVvKF0
To run these servers on a Linux phone makes file access from phone much easier, and it makes it suitable for mobile use, where there is no cloud available or wanted. Developers wanted to develop a Nextcloud, Jellyfin Media Server, and Minecraft app which can be downloaded from the Ubports app store. If these apps are available, I will buy again a Ubports phone.
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RE: Request list for other devices in the device subfolders
@applee I want my four missing Xiaomi folders that I requested, or I will ignore everyone who is against it.
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Are there any privacy issues if we choose a phone from Google like the Google Pixel 3a/3a XL?
Is not Google a company which is known for spying on us? And are Google products not known to have privacy issues? What about the Google Pixel soft- and hardware? Are there any privacy risks if choosing a Google Pixel phone? Has the UBports software on Google phones anything to do with Google? Was it developed by Google? And is it risky for privacy reasons to choose a Google Pixel phone with Ubuntu Touch? Is it possible that there are any back doors by Google for spying users out on these phones?
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Does screen copy (scrcpy) for Android work with UBports?
scrcpy mirrors Android devices (video and audio) connected via USB or over TCP/IP, and allows to control the device with the keyboard and the mouse of the computer.
Requirements:
USB debugging on your Android device needs to be enabled.
I tested it and it works very reliable on my Android phone. I currently do not have a Uborts phone at hand. Someone tried scrcpy it on on Mobian with the Pinephone:
A user had some trouble getting an acceptable resolution, but apart from that it worked quite well.
Does someone know if it works with Ubports, too?
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RE: Is there a phone which runs Ubuntu Touch which can write to the exernal SD card or boot from there?
@Rinkeby Thanks for the answer,
I am currently struggeling to solve a problem on my Pinephone. I have installed postmarketOS on it and Abiword. But Abiword cannot write to the external SD card. I want to store and edit Abiword files on the external SD card to be able to pull out the SD card from the phone an stick it into my Ubuntu PC:
I am almost there to do this on my Pinephone, exept that I have not yet the permission to write Abword files on my Ubuntu PC to the SD card with postmarketOS:
My question is, can I do this with the Voila phone as well? Install Abiword on the external SD card, pull the SD card from the phone, stick it into a Ubuntu PC, to furhter process Abiword files there?
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RE: Is there a phone which runs Ubuntu Touch which can write to the exernal SD card or boot from there?
thank you for the answer.
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Can the Voila Phone boot from an external SD card? I m looking for a solution to stick the card on a card reader into a PC for data exchange.
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Can the Voila phone write to the external SD card with apps installed on the internal SD card?
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Is there a phone which runs Ubuntu Touch which can write to the exernal SD card or boot from there?
The Pinephone can do this, for instance with PostmarketOS. I was also able to install PostmarketOS on the external SD card of the Pinephone and boot it from there. But I am looking for an alternative. Who wants to depend on a single (Pine 64) manufacturer?
So I am asking:
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Is there a phone which runst Ubuntu Touch which can write to the external SD card?
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Is there a phone which among the here supported devices which can boot Ubuntu Touch from the external SD card?
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RE: Good Office Program for LG Nexus 5?
@noelflantier The discussion is old, and the problem not solved.
Thank you for your great LightP Word Processor and we are very happy about it. We will test on our Pinephone with Ubports.
We suffer since longer time that there is no office software which has a community on Linux phones which is happy about it.
User reported that everything works with Libre Office on the Pinephone, but it is terribly laggish. Softmaker has their special application for Android. Maybe it works in an Anbox. But is Anbox not just Android on a Ubports, with the same disadvantages Android has?
Someone reported to use AbiWord and Gnumeric instead of LibreOffice on the Pinephone.
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RE: libreoffice
@nero355 After intense tests, whe found out that it is possible to run LibreOffice on a PinePhone (PostmarketOS, but not Ubuntu Touch), also for non-developers. It is the option which has been tested the most, and was written about the most. There are issues left, but there also instructions to resolve these issues available. Developers welcome.
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RE: Does LibreOffice run on the Fairphone 3?
@luksus Thanks for sharing your experience. What a pitty. LibreOffice does not work on a Ubuntu Touch Pinephone, and now also troubles with Fairphone 3.
We had about three weeks to get LibreOffice to run on a PinePhone with PostmarketOS and mobian. After three weeks, when all troubles where described in great detail, it «just worked» in those distros. A miracle happened.
It is worth publishing issues. Distro developers eventually will update it.
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RE: Does LibreOffice run on the Fairphone 3?
Yes, this is the Ubports forum. It was about finding out whether it is worth to try LibreOffice on a Fairphone 3, after I had initial problems on a PinePhone with LibreOffice on PMOS.
I did distro hopping on the PinePhone and went through all possible distros, until I managed to install LibreOffice. I also have a Fairphone 3, which I bought before the PinePhone, and I changed to the PinePhone since I can write to the external SD card which I really love. I don t think I will buy another Pixel 3a in near future.
I was wondering whether LibreOffice might be better on a Fairphone 3 than on a PinePhone with POS. There is a problem that LibreOffice hangs when it wants to recover files at start up, and I could not yet find a way to start LibreOffice when this questions box is on the screen, so it is not usuable for me to this date.
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RE: Google Chromecast installation on Ubuntu Touch?
Thanks for your detailed answers, which I really appreciate.
I already have a ChromeCast 3 dongle which I used for an Android phone, and found out yesterday, that to use Chromium on PMOS has become easy. On my Windows PC, it was also very easy to mirror the screen over a ChromeCast to HDMI. I currently have VNC server connection between PinePhone and PC, but I think a WIFI to HDMI solution would be better. If I would buy a new device, I would prefer the Miracast standard, although I don t know whether desktop mirroring is as easy as with the Chrome browser.
I am also positive now about LibreOffice on the PinePhone. Jacob Crume, a Robotics student in New Zealand used linux-based PinePhone daily for a year:
https://news.itsfoss.com/pinephone-review/
He used four desktop environment, Plasma Mobile, Phosh and Lomiri, he spent roughly four months with each environment.
He was surprised at how capable the PinePhone was as a laptop. He said he often found myself editing documents in LibreOffice.
That is good news.